Now Polly doesn’t know what to do.
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Hometown of Laura Bush (former First Lady of the United States) is the one and only, Midland, Texas. The “Tall City” is twenty miles northeast of Odessa and thirty-nine miles southwest of Big Spring. Its exact coordinates are 31.9973° latitude and -102.007911° longitude and it is located in the Mountains and Basins region of Texas. The average annual high temperature is 80°F and the average low is 50.9°…
Lachlan Macquarie Lachlan Macquarie was a Scottish born individual that moved toward becoming Governor of NSW. He was born on the 31st of January 1762 off the Isle Of Ulva, Scotland. He was a child of Margaret and Lachlan Macquarie and was one of six kids in the family. Donald and Charles Macquarie were two of his siblings, and the other three boys were unknown.…
Winnie Roach-Leuszler was born February 3, 1926 in Port Credit Ontario. She was the third oldest out of her eleven siblings. She began swimming when she was only three years old, and then started competitively swimming. At nine years old, she won her first long distance medal for swimming 1.5 miles in Port Credit River, Ontario. Winnie is mostly known for her skills in swimming but was nominated for Canada’s all-around Athlete of the Year due to her swimming, diving, softball, track and field, and basketball, tennis, along with volleyball and hockey participation.…
Belle Boyd Isabelle Boyd, or Belle Boyd, was on the Confederate Army’s side during the Civil War (Belle Boyd, 2017). Boyd was born on May 9, 1844. Boyd’s parents owned and ran a general store in Berkeley County, Virginia. Boyd loved her home and the environment around her. At 12, she was sent to Mount Washington Academy until she was 16.…
On the morning of August 15, 1961, 12 year old Gerta Lowe woke up to the sounds of sirens. Overnight communist Germany had build a barbed wire fence along the border of east and west Berlin. In the days before, Gerta and her dad had taken an exporatory trip over the border to search for work and opportunities. Now Gerta, her brother Fritz,and their moth…
The parents of Westside High School senior, Chris Browning, were killed in a tragic car accident right outside of Savannah, Georgia when he was 8 years old. He now resides with Alan and Melissa Smith, who adopted Chris after a few short months after the accident. He also has a step brother Jacob (18 years old). Chris excels in baseball, as well as in the classroom. Chris grew up in a house where he did not feel so welcomed by his step brother, Jacob.…
The New York Yankees on Sunday have reportedly agreed to hire the services of the seven-time All-Star and free-agent Matt Holliday by signing him with a one-year deal having a value of USD 13 million to play for the upcoming new season of the Major League Baseball (MLB). Basing from the report of the The Score, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was said to have agreed to give the 2007 National League batting champion the deal as the American baseball executive made his second major move of the winter. The native of Stillwater, Oklahoma spent the last eight seasons playing for the National League Central Division team St. Louis Cardinals, where he played almost exclusively in the left field position.…
There's a dynamic young lady with a candid attitude and a traveling voice that many don't know who to take in, Charquica Mccurdy was new to Lee High School as well as being new to the whole environment, but many didn't take the chance to get to know her yet. What most people at Lee failed to learn about her was that she's lived a hard life to be at a young age which is one of the reasons she moved to Wyoming, MI after living in Detroit,MI all her life. Most students at Lee go to work, and school; because their forced too meanwhile Charquica does those things to make a change in her life. Her grades have improved extremely since being enrolled in Lee High School because she made that change, so she can prepare herself to go to college and make…
Born Frederick Augustus Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland 1818. Frederick struggled through childhood due to the slavery conditions at the time. In 1824, six year old Frederick Bailey moved from his home in Baltimore, Maryland to a plantation in the country called the Wye House. Just two years later, Frederick was sold off to another slave owner back in Baltimore where he was taught to read by his owner’s wife, Lucretia Auld. The learning process was a struggle do to Mr. Auld's harsh slave rules.…
While eating a tuna salad sandwich, Virgie Chambers and Mary Brown Randolph knew someone was about to make their debut; the birth of Mary Brown’s only daughter, favorite grandchild, DeAnna Chambers. She was born June 26, 1991, in Columbia, SC. She was born to the proud parents, the Reverend Charles Edward Chambers Sr. and Virgie Randolph Chambers. She was the first child for at least seven years until her beautiful baby sister was born, Mary Chambers. From birth, DeAnna’s parents knew there was something special about her.…
Mercy Brown was born in Exeter, Rhode Island. She died in 1892, just a little over 100 years ago. She was the daughter of a store clerk. Two months earlier her mother and sister had died of consumption. It was decided by her doctors, due to her pale skin, bloodshot eyes, and rapidly failing health, along with a sensitivity to sunlight that the family were being attacked by vampires.…
Mary Todd Lincoln was born as just Mary Todd on December 13, 1818. Mary was born into a large, prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky, a town that her family had helped found. Mary had a pretty good upbringing compared to the standard for her time. She grew up wealthy, as a result of her Father, Robert Todd’s astounding career as a merchant and politician. Despite Mary’s picture perfect life, she had to deal with tragedy at a very young age.…
As one of of the largest suburbs located south of the river, Burnsville is home to over 60,000 residents. The city’s thriving bedroom community enjoys both the spacious setting and numerous amenities available. Residents relish the location, being just twenty minutes south of downtown Minneapolis. The dynamic community is built around both its close-knit, friendly atmosphere and its wide selection of activities. Burnsville hosts many different events throughout the year that are designed to bring the community together.…
Performer: James Brown Career Span: 1960-1990 Location: James Brown was born in South Carolina but was raised in Southern Georgia. Band Members: James Brown’s first band consisted of members from his Gospel Based group from the 1950s where his career began as a musician. After his hit of “Please, Please, Please” they changed their name to James Brown and the “Famous Flames.” In 1970, Brown hired some young musicians to form his new band.…
Pictland was a unified kingdom, however, it was divided into several provinces ruled by their own provincial kings. Examples of Pictish provinces include Fife, Fortriu, Almond and Atholl. The many small kingdoms could be evidence of Roman influence because Roman Britain was also home to hundreds of small, competing kingdoms. The major subdivision of the Picts was between the northern and southern regions: “Roman writers from the fourth century onwards regularly refer to two major groupings within the Picts, though not always by the same names.”…